Perhaps the Blair administration should take a few lessons from, say, Lord Archer, a much-mocked but unabashed Tory peer, on how to roll with the punches.

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EU's much-mocked Lisbon Agenda of economic reform.

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Named after a much-mocked hairstyle that's short and neat in front but long and unkempt in back, mullet strategists maintain a spiffy, well-groomed front page they can show to advertisers while serving most of their actual page views on a constellation of low-quality discussion boards, sexed-up celebrity news bits and user- or auto-generated content.

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The point is, the Corvette, the much-beloved, often-mocked all-American sports car, is cool again, and it has become cool by standing on first principles and having the world come around to it.

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None of this would be any of our business except for the fact that Swift told writer Nancy Jo Sales in an upcoming Vanity Fair profile that she was upset that the Golden Globes hosts mocked her much-publicized love life.

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